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David Szalay and Ottessa Moshfegh shortlisted for Gordon Burn Prize 2016!

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Congratulations to David Szalay (ALL THAT MAN IS, Jonathan Cape) and Ottessa Moshfegh (EILEEN, Jonathan Cape) on being shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2016! The prize rewards literature which challenges perceived notions of genre and makes us think again about just what it is that we are reading....

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08/10/2016 - 11:07
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David Szalay and Ottessa Moshfegh longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016

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Huge congratulations to David Szalay and Ottessa Moshfegh on being longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016. David Szalay's critically-acclaimed novel ALL THAT MAN IS has been described as a 'beautifully crystallised vision of what it is for a man to be a particular age', and Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel...

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07/27/2016 - 12:33
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Simon Mawer's Tightrope wins the 2016 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction

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Congratualtions to Simon Mawer on winning the 2016 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for his novel Tightrope .

Tightrope follows Marian Sutro, who has survived Ravensbruck and is back in dreary London trying to pick up the pieces of her post-War life. It is Simon’s tenth novel;...

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06/27/2016 - 11:17
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Adam Mars-Jones shortlisted for PEN Ackerley Prize 2016!

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Adam Mars-Jones has been shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize 2016, for his memoir about his father, KID GLOVES . The prize is awarded to a literary autobiography of excellence, for which it is felt that J.R. Ackerley would have expressed enthusiasm. KID GLOVES has been described as 'moving,...

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06/22/2016 - 10:56
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